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Azerbaijan

Caspian Sea

… and Aras rivers forms the Kura-Aras Lowland along the western shore of the southern Caspian. The southwestern and southern Caspian shores are formed of the sediments of the Länkäran and Gīlān-Māzanderān lowlands, with the high peaks of the Talish and Elburz ranges rearing up close inland. The eastern shore of…

Caucasus Mountains

…ranges, falls sharply into the Kura-Aras (Kura-Araks) Lowland. At the centre of this extensive depression the Kura River receives its major right-bank tributary, the Aras (Azerbaijani: Araz) River. To the northeast the hills of southeastern Kobystan separate the Kura-Aras Lowland from the Abşeron Peninsula; and to the extreme southeast the…

Transcaucasia

…ranges, falls sharply into the Kura-Aras (Kür-Araz) Lowland, an extensive depression in the centre of which the Kura (Kür, or Mtkvari) River receives its major right-bank tributary, the Aras (Araks, or Araz) River. To the northeast the hills of southeastern Kobustan separate the Kura-Aras Lowland from the Abşeron Peninsula; and…

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